The Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation Interbank Consortium (SCO IBC) will hold a seminar
chaired by Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the State Development Corporation VEB.RF,
via videoconference on 23–24 April. In addition to members of the SCO IBC, the
event, which is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation, will also be
attended by representatives of a number of banks from SCO observer countries
and dialogue partners.
Participants in
the Seminar will discuss the experience of using public-private partnerships
(PPP) in infrastructure projects. They will also assess the potential
challenges to the PPP market of the SCO countries and ways of dealing with
them.
The discussion
will also focus on increasing the role of national currencies in operations
between the SCO member states, measures to support national bank regulators to
promote deposits and account settlement in the SCO countries’ currencies, as
well as practical aspects of using national currencies in international trade,
lending and investment.
A separate session
will be devoted to the participation of SCO development institutes in shaping
the urban environment.
